A dissident frequency
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.
Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, Mr. McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, "So this is America?" Mr. McGovern is covered with bruises, lacerations and contusions inflicted in the assault.
...But if the border can't be fortified, the U.S. wants Ottawa to expand surveillance over the Canadian population. That would involve satellite snooping, telecommunications monitoring and heightened scrutiny of mail and cellphone records. They're also pushing us to adopt restrictive immigration policies similar to their own. In short, they want to Americanize Canada....
